“Let me check one thing and come back to you by Thursday.”
For when you are put on the spot.
1The moment
Cornered in a meeting?
Panic.Say this.
The Cornered Card: 12 sentences that buy you time, protect your work and get you out of tight spots at work. One card for your wallet, one for your lock screen.
- Let me check one thing and come back to you by Thursday.
- Which of these should I drop to make room for it?
- Can we put that in writing so I get it exactly right?
Foxes.
Print it. Nobody has to know why you're so calm.
2The card
Four kinds of tight spot. Three lines for each.
“Happy to walk everyone through how I built it.”
For when your work is about to become someone else’s.
“Which of these should I drop to make room for it?”
For when yes would cost you your evening.
“What would great look like by Friday?”
For when the brief is fog.
3Is this you?
- You think of the right reply on the drive home.
- You say yes in meetings and regret it by lunch.
- You've watched someone else present your work.
- You want to be good at work without becoming a shark.
Nobody explains office politics. You learn it by getting burned. The card is the cheat sheet we wish we'd had.
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